SAP Visual Business

Combine and visualise your enterprise data in interactive geographical or 3D real-world scenes – with SAP Visual Business. The user interface (UI) mash-up technology lets you navigate data from multiple sources and transact with back-end systems – all on one screen. It fully integrates with major UI frameworks to provide you with maximum flexibility.

Because the software’s rich visualisation and UI mashup features let users easily find and digest the critical information they need – without having to log into other systems or search the Internet. With SAP Visual Business, you can:

Communicate complex information without the need for detailed notations

Give business users an intuitive, tangible way to navigate business data

Scenes and visualisation objectsIn SAP Visual Business, a scene is a graphical background realised as a 3D space, either on the basis of a map (3D geographical scene) or without a map (3D graphical scene). The scene typically contains visualisation objects (VOs) that represent objects from business scenarios, such as factories, machines, or trucks – as well as your turnover, revenues, or spending value. The actual data behind the VOs is provided by SAP back-end systems. The concept involving scenes and VOs makes the visualisation of business processes extremely flexible.

Properties and interactionsThe appearance and behaviour of a VO are influenced by its properties and interactions. A tooltip or the size of a VO can represent, for example, the turnover resulting from business with a particular customer – while a click or a double-click on the VO can open a callout window with an overview of a warehouse’s current capacity. A VO can also provide you with a context menu that can lead to further actions.

As a result, VOs can be used to visualise nearly every kind of business data – and then connect it to the SAP Visual Business application. VOs also support drag and drop operations, which are completely under the application’s control.

Additional windowsTake advantage of additional windows based on scenes. These windows can represent and illustrate further business data separated from data on the main scene – and provide added interaction capabilities.

Web Dynpro integrationSeamlessly integrate SAP Visual Business into standard SAP functionality – using Web Dynpro. The data available within the Web Dynpro application can be used to illustrate business elements such as locations of factories, customers, or suppliers. These business elements can be directly displayed as VOs on a map in SAP Visual Business.

Alert monitoringRely on proactive, automated monitoring to ensure reliable operations for your SAP system environment. We’ll provide you with the infrastructure and recommendations needed to set up your alert monitoring – so you can quickly recognise critical situations for the SAP Visual Business ABAP component or the integrating application.

Log and trace filesUse the SAP Visual Business client log and trace entries to identify internal program issues and events – and to help administrators detect and solve problems in the code version and installation.

Support

Get the support you need to keep SAP Visual Business running at peak performance. Our experts can help you maximise the value of your software, take advantage of new business models and capabilities, and more.

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